REMARKS
Criticism of administration's approach to early childhood education closures
1:49:02
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Council Member Krishnan delivers concluding remarks, strongly criticizing the administration's approach to early childhood education center closures and emphasizing the importance of these centers for the community.
- Krishnan highlights the rising demand for early childhood education, especially in low-income communities
- He emphasizes the importance of childcare for families, parents, and the workforce
- Krishnan states that closing childcare centers in the current climate is 'simply unacceptable'
- He calls for a different approach from the Department of Education to meet the growing need for early childhood education services
Shekar Krishnan
1:49:02
Okay.
1:49:02
Well I think you know it's let's look into that.
1:49:05
I want to make sure they're being paid on their contracts.
1:49:07
My understanding was otherwise.
1:49:09
But regardless I don't think we can be closing Clearly there's a problem of paying late for early childhood centers on contracts.
1:49:19
And it's it's a major issue and it it really impacts their operations.
1:49:23
Clearly we know the demand for early childhood education in this city and it's rising and it's rising rapidly especially in low income communities.
1:49:30
And we know how important childcare is for families, for parents, for mothers in the workforce, and how much of an economic driver it can and should be for our city.
1:49:40
Given all of those things, to go after and close childcare centers in this critical moment is simply unacceptable to me and to many of our colleagues in this council.
1:49:51
And I would wanna see a very different approach Department of Education and I really hope that centers like Nuestros Ninos and many others continue to stay open so we can meet that need.
1:50:03
Thank you.